[imc-tech-solidarity] Re: imc beirut

[Jeff]

I will be in touch with free geek(the hardware granting orginization)
soon.

they recently changed the wat they process hardware grant requests and
this request got lost in the shuffle.

stay tuned,
i expect a response by next week.

in the mean time how did we say we were going to cover shipping costs?

hope you are well,
-jeff

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:28:31AM +0200, blue.pi wrote:
| Hi guys, 
| 
| by now imc-finance send us the money to buy Arabic keyboards and renovate 
| the room for the computers. But what happened to the computers? Can we 
| still count on them? 
| 
| solidarity,
| blue (imc beirut) 
| 
| Jeff writes: 
| 
| >
| >
| >| sounds good enough for our purposes. I don't really know what the 
| >procedure
| >| is, now. 
| >
| >great, i will arrange for the preparations for these machines.  i wonder
| >are there any special features you would like or equipment you would
| >like to request? ( no promises ) but i can attempt to get stuff that
| >will best meet your needs. 
| >
| >also what is the level of technical skills of your team there?  would
| >you prefer the software pre loaded? and can you point us to some info on
| >Arabic Lang support?  i am sure i can dig up some stuff but pointers are
| >helpful. 
| >
| >we can hook them up with a variation of debian gnu/linux.  i will also
| >attempt to get some machines with usb.  how bout printers, scanners etc? 
| >
| >i will also look into the shipping costs.  if you guys there could write
| >up the proposal to imc finance that would make things easier for us here
| >as we could focus more on the technical/shipping stuff. 
| >
| >hope you are well,
| >jeff 
| >
| >
| >
| >| It is important that the computers are declared as a donation to the
| >| Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections, because that is an 
| >official
| >| NGO and we hope to get around taxes that way (the only staff of that NGO 
| >is
| >| part of indymedia) 
| >
| >we can discuss more of the details as we progress. 
| >
| 
| 
| 
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